Wind-motor sign



Feb. 20, 1923. w.l L. vHUDSON WIND MOTOR SIGN Filed Jan- 10, 1922gnou/Ufo@ lill/4m. #M50/1f Patented eb. Z0, i923.

WILLIAM LfHUDsoN, or LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, assienon montrait MonnIsoivfintatti! Winn-Moron sien'.

Application filed January .10, 1922*. Serial lNr'io.` 528,229; e i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM L. l-lnDSoN, acitizen of thevUnited States, residing at Lynchburg, in the countyofCampbell and Stateof Virginia, have invented Acertain new and usefulImprovements in WindMotor Signs, of which the following is aspecification. y y

This invention relates to Vnew and useful improvements in advertisingdevices,"and

more particularly to improvements upon al deviceofy the characterdisclosed in my co-` pendin application for vwind motor signs, S. NAasistan-01M@ 27th, 192i.V

The important object of the present invention resides in the,k provisionof asign having oppositely disposed advertising devices or means forattracting attention to the sign associated therewith and which can betransposed or interchanged so that their pol sitions with respectl torthensign will be reversed, thereby eliminating certain preca'u! tionswhich would have to be taken in lettering the sign and advertisingdevices if the latter were not interchangeable.

the'various parts lfor the accomplishment of the purpose above set forthin a commercial manner.

Other objects and advantages ofthe invention will become apparent duringthe courseof the following description.` v 4 In the accompanying`drawings forming a part of the descriptionand wherein like numerals areemployed, to designate like t parts throughout the .several views.

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i Figure' is wheel frame.

Figure 1 is aside elevationof the inven- Figure 2 isl a top planV ofthesame, and

an end elevation of the wind In the drawings wherein for the purpose ofillustrationisshown the. preferred embodiment of the inventiomthenumeral. 5 designates apost Mor any desired support from whichhrises.arod V6 zfor rotatablyl finounting 'a sign v7 as disclosed in the aboves fmentioned co-pending application. The sign lin the present instanceconsists of a pair of spacedparallel, Aoppositely disposed panels f8secured face vto face, wherebythe advertis- 'ingymatter or the outer`faces of the panels' 'are visible from vo-p-posite'sides of the signfbars Auxiliary to this ob'ect Vis to provide an" inexpensive and yetdurable construction for An upright lbar 9 is fastened anylsuitablemeans 'between thepanels 8v at each` end of the sign, fit being. Vnotedthat the ends'o-f the Theadvertising deVC .Which Prld ad ditionaladvertising spacefand 'means for.

lattrating attention to the panels'f'con'sists of a wind wheel `lland`ava-ne orjelongated board '12. I.This boardisfastened to acarf l rier 13in the form of a `barwhich'is the same length as the bars r9 andhaskitsends provided with apertures toi align with those of projectV abo-ve'and belowlvth'eu sign 'or y *i panels andare ape-rturedffortlie'reception f' of bolts 10.`

both 'bars 9 s@ that yit cany be vattached*to y either one of these'barsand be? i v arranged in the same plane withthe: panels.y

`The windl vwheel .may4 be-"of anyfdesired constructionso as to berotated bythewind and, is demountafbly connected in a frame 14. Thisvframe consists'ofjapair of bars l15-re tained in "spacedparallelrelation by' rods 16 inthe same manner vas 'disclosed in I mycopending application.y The bars 15 are each equipped witha bearingforthe axle of the 1 f wind wheelfand theends of the inner ,bar of thelfrankie are 'providedfwithapertures adapted. `to align with 4Jthose inthe-bars9- forming a part of the'fsign. f lt. will therei fore beappreciated that the windfwheel e frame can yalsohbe detachablyconnected to `'either end of the sign or lpanels therefore the vane andwindy wheel frameare inter'-v changeable with respectltothe sigi'i.l y,

To illustrate' the advantages Vof providing for the interchange ofthewind wheel frame oftentimes the signslarefpurchased floyytwol V ypartieshaving different `advertisements to display and who flesireaneven'apportion-y ment of advertising space iffConsequentl .theVparties maywdesire an v`'eadveiltisement l placed upon both sidesoftheadvertising demay desire one side of eentral.r and the correspondingsidejof the; vane. "Were it not for thefact thatftlrie frame 14 andvanefwereinterchangeable lso that either one vcould kbe attached-,toeitherjend of' the sign kp proper, it will be seen'that precaution would'have to be exercised in lettering the sign and vane `to anticipatethe[desires of the joint purchasers Since thel advertising devices f tvica-each having one side ofthe central sign i l and the'opposite sidevofthe vane,oieach 9o', i Land vane,r V itis desired tofpoint out thatvvention.

are interchangeable, the advertisements of the joint purchasers may bepainted upon either side of the vane, and the purchasers upon receivingthe wind motor sign may assemble the same in the manner they desire orchange the arrangement from time to' time. As the vane and wind wheelframe are detachable from the sign proper and the latter can be removedfrom the rod 6, it will be seen that the device can be crated compactlyand shipped in the minimum amount of space.

The operation of the advertising device is the same as thedevice'disclosed in my above mentioned coi-pendingv application withregards to the operation of the wind upon the device, it beingappreciated that the sign proper 'and the vane will act in the capacityof a weather vane to shift the device so that the wind wheel l1 will be-rotated whenever there is any wind. The blades of the wind wheel arepainted with various combinations of bright colors so. that rotation ofthe wheel will attract attention to the advertising matter situatedy onthe panels 8 and vane 12.

The foregoing description and the laccompanying drawings have referenceto the preferred or approved embodiments of my in- It is to beunderstood however, that such changes may be made inthe construction andarrangement of parts, materials, dimensions, etc., as may prove eX-pedient and fall within the scope of the appended claims. t

Having thus illustrated and described my invention, what l nowfclaim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A device of the class described comprising a plurality of signshaving advertising data on opposite sides thereof, one of said signsbeing demountably attached to the other signs, and adaptedto be attachedto either end: of said other sign whereby the advertising data' onopposite sides of the signs can be arranged in the desired relationship.

2. A device of the class described comprising a sign board, a. windwheel frame detachably connected to one end thereof, a vane detachablyconnected to the other end of the boa-rd, and said frame and vane beinginterchangeable.

3. A device of the class described comprising a rotatable sign boardhaving aper-tured parts at each endf thereof extended beyond Vthe topAand bottom ofthe board, a wind @wheel ,iframe detacliably, connected tothe apertured parts atene end of the board, and

a vanecarrierconne'cted to the aperturedl parte at-theoppo's'ite endofthe board, said framefand carrier beingl interchangeable.

il. A-device'pof the' class described corn- Y prising a rotatable signconsisting of a pair ,ofpanels an upright bar fastened l.to each theopposite ends to the bars being extended above and below the sign andapertured, a wind wheel frame and a vane carrier having apertures toalign with the apertures in the ends of the bars, bolts for detachablyconnecting the frame and the carrier to the upright bars, and said frameand carrier being interchangeable with relation to the sign.

5. An advertising sign comprising a body portion adapted to containadvertising matter, an advertising device having advertising matter onopposite sides thereof, and said advertisingdevice being attac-hable toeither end of the sign whereby thewadvertising matter of each slide ofthe device can be arranged in proper relationship to the advertisingmatter on the body portion.

6. An advertising device comprising a rotatable sign board a wind wheelframe detachably mounted on one end thereof, anadver tising containerdetachably connected'to the other end of the sign board and havingadvertising matter on opposite sides thereof, and said frame andcontainer being vinterchangeable with respect to each other and inrelation to the sign board.

7. A device of the class described comprising a. sign board havingadvertisingA data on opposite sides thereof, an attention attractingdevice detachably mounted on one end of the sign, and a signlhaving'advertising data. on oppositesides thereof and detachably mountedon the other end of the sign board, said sign and attention attractingdevice being attachable to eithenend of said sign board whereby theadvertising data on either side of the sign can be arranged in thedesired relationship to the advertising data on either side of the signboard.

S. A device of the class described comprising a sign, a rotatable memberdetachably connected thereto, and vane detachably mounted on thesignfsaidA rotatable member and vane being interchangeable.

9. A device of the class described comprising a revolving sign board,a'rotatable member detachably connected toA 'one end thereof, a vanecontaining advertising data on opposite sides thereof and detachablymounted on the other end' of saidsign board said sign board havingadvertising data on opposite sides thereof, and said rotatable memberand vane being"interchageable whereby the advertising dataonlthegvanecan be arranged in the"desiredfvrelationship to the advertising data onthesignfbo'ard.

l0. A- device of the classdescribedfcomprising a 4sign havingopposite"ends'f'provided with openings, a frame forJ an. attentionattracting device and .afvaneliavillg openings `to align "with thefopenings in eitherend of the-"sign wherebythe frame p t l and the 'vanemaybe attachedjo either end end of' the 'sign between" thepanelsthereof,

of the sign so that"adver'tising"'data"en the vane'can be arranged inthe proper relationship to the advertising data disposed on oppositesides of the sign.

11. A device of the class described comprising a sign7 an attentionattracting dedevice demountably attached to one end of the sign, and avane detachably connected to the other end of the sign, said vane andattention attracting. device being interchangeable whereby advertisingdata on the vane can be arranged` in the proper relationship to theadvertising data on the sign.

l2.Y A device of the class described comprising a .si gn board havingadvertising data on opposite sides thereof, an attention at tractingdevice detachably mounted on one l end of the sign, and a sign havingadvertis# ing data on opposite sides thereof detachably connected to theotherk end ofthe sign' y board, said sign and attention attractingdevices being interchangeablev whereby the advertising data on thefsigncan'be'ar- ,y ranged in the vdesired relationship 'to the advertisingdata on the signboard.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM L. Witnesses:

COLLIE ST. CLAIR, E. A. ALLEN.

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